The present invention relates to a multi-mode communication system and a
method thereof. The multi-mode communication system uses a first mode
among a plurality communication modes for accessing a first mobility
control entity (MCE) among a plurality of MCEs, and communicates data
with the first MCE. The multi-mode communication system receives a paging
request that has been transmitted from a multi-mode control entity (MMCE)
for accessing a second MCE from the first MCE and analyzes the paging
request, and puts the first mode into a sleep mode and a second mode for
accessing the second MCE into an awake mode based on the analysis.
Subsequently, multi-mode UE accesses the second MCE by using the second
mode in the awake mode. According to the present invention, an MMCE for
multi-mode control is provided to integrate and manage an idle state for
each access mode of multi-mode user equipment, thereby minimizing power
consumption due to access of the multi-mode UE to a radio access system.
In addition, a change of the access of the multi-mode UE to the radio
access system due to a paging request can be efficiently performed.